The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.


Jane Austen

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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
DODIE SMITH
Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self...
EMILY AUERBACH
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NANCY KRESS
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession o...
BRUCE FEIRSTEIN
In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
HARPER LEE
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. ROWLING
A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
AMERICAN PROVERB
People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL
A young lady who faints may awake chivalrous sentiments in gentleman; a young lady who weeps engende...
JUDITH BROCKLEHURST
When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach...
JANE AUSTEN
I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale...
SOPHIE HANNAH
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills....
MICHAEL O'BRIEN
The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.
REV. R. H. BARHAM
The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
OLEG CASSINI
People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose...
ANGELA THIRKELL
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and ...
WHIT STILLMAN
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus spari...
CATHLEEN SCHINE
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. ROWLING
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
JANE AUSTEN
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets t...
VAL MCDERMID
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summari...
TRACY CHEVALIER
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

"For the liveliness of your mind,...
JANE AUSTEN
You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and...
JANE AUSTEN
I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can....
J.K. ROWLING
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH
Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Per...
EMILY AUERBACH
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
KAREN JOY FOWLER
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.
VOLTAIRE
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
HUGH MACLENNAN
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by ...
MEG CABOT
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
VOLTAIRE
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.
VOLTAIRE
No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will atte...
VAL MCDERMID
I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. WILSON
She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the mis...
JANE AUSTEN
Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time....
RICK WARREN
I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of ...
HUGH GRANT
Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer with...
HORATIO NELSON
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON
How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN
If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
No lady is ever a gentleman
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i...
ANNE STEVENSON
I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionat...
FRANCES O'CONNOR
She [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she eve...
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own s...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a per...
CLARICE LISPECTOR
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a m...
JANE AUSTEN
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
JANE AUSTEN
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious f...
JANE AUSTEN
I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupi...
SHANNON L. ALDER
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far be...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far be...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Jane Austen has phenomenal craft, ... I tried to stay faithful to the narrative, the tone and atmosp...
JOE WRIGHT
LADY BRACKNELL

I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entire...
OSCAR WILDE
'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our l...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after...
MARY ANN SHAFFER
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear ...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
She?s like a poodle in a pit bull body. She has such a refined demeanor and a lady-like temperament ...
JOANNE DRAPER
It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, ...
SUSANNA CLARKE
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run ...
SARGENT SHRIVER
And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful att...
H. RIDER HAGGARD
Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining...
A. N. WILSON
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite go...
A. S. BYATT
I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
SUSANNA CLARKE
No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline m...
JOHN S. BONNELL
If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS...
To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS...
Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money ha...
MARK BILLINGHAM
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nucl...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT
A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on
FRED ALLEN
It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tols...
MONA SIMPSON
My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of c...
JANE AUSTEN
Don’t we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody ...
DAN PEARCE
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contrib...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY
The enemy wasn't men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin' stupid people, wh...
TERRY PRATCHETT

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Every savage can dance.
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi...
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I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
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What strange creatures brothers are!
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...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
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The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
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Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, ...
JANE AUSTEN
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
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We are all fools in love
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....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN
What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
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Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor...
JANE AUSTEN
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
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If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la...
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Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te...
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai...
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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ...
JANE AUSTEN
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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From politics it was an easy step to silence.
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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co...
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
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And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea...
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh...
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. . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether...
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso...
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear...
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
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I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed femal...
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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Well! Evil to some is always good to others.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considera...
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There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
JANE AUSTEN
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...
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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It...
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
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One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at...
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
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Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se...
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There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me...
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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN
My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
JANE AUSTEN
Till this moment I never knew myself.
JANE AUSTEN
He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your...
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From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, y...
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love
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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m...
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.
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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one...
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It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ...
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care...
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m...
JANE AUSTEN
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in ...
JANE AUSTEN
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
JANE AUSTEN
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sp...
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The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without...
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It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t...
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa...
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Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...
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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al...
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Beware how you give your heart.
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My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ...
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Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect...
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...
JANE AUSTEN
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...
JANE AUSTEN
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...
JANE AUSTEN
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
JANE AUSTEN
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these...
JANE AUSTEN
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
JANE AUSTEN
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
JANE AUSTEN
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTEN
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
JANE AUSTEN
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...
JANE AUSTEN
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
JANE AUSTEN
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
JANE AUSTEN
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
JANE AUSTEN
My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ...
JANE AUSTEN
One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it
JANE AUSTEN
But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...
JANE AUSTEN
Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu...
JANE AUSTEN
It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno...
JANE AUSTEN
You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN
It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
JANE AUSTEN
My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m...
JANE AUSTEN
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
JANE AUSTEN
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
JANE AUSTEN
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ...
JANE AUSTEN
She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ...
JANE AUSTEN
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ...
JANE AUSTEN
I am excessively diverted.
JANE AUSTEN
Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN
Every thing nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN
It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
JANE AUSTEN